Self Evaluation and Reflection

We were always taught that deafness is a loss/lack of hearing ability, that it is an unfortunate reality, but what if it is the other way around? What if it is a gift, what if deaf people are luckier than us as they have received access to a dimension of living and communicating that we would have never discovered as hearing people? We should learn from those we used to perceive as ‘lacking’ and reflect on why our ways of perceiving the world are considered the norm. 

Hey y'all! Here are the links to my essays and reflection. I've really enjoyed meeting you guys and hanging out this semester - I'm really glad we got to spend this time together. Good luck with the rest of the year!

Also here's my self portrait! 

This statement feels overused and I'm a tad worried it'll cheapen the sincerity of my sentiment however it's how I feel, Critcal Disability Studies has easily been one of my favorite college courses. When I fist came into the class, disability studies and disability culture were two things that I had never really spent to much time thinking about. I think because I considered myself to be a relatively open and non-judgmental person I thought that  I didn't need to consider abalism because I wasn't practicing it myself. It wasn't till we got into the course that I realized how many of my preceptions of disability culture were not only inaccurate but offensive in a lot of cases.

I left my CCW notebook at Bryn Mawr so there's an additional paragraph in my reflection talking about what I wrote about in my notebook that I can remember. Thanks :)

In this second attempt to learn about and understand disability studies as a discipline, a follow-up from my first-year writing seminar, I feel that the work I have been doing has sunk in for me in a way that I hadn’t previously experienced. Truly, I see ableism as more deeply ingrained in and intertwined with daily life than I ever did before taking this class. Some of this understanding undoubtedly comes from the time we’re living: during a pandemic, disability, illness, and access feel particularly relevant. However, I also think I’ve become more inspired to be alert to the smaller and larger injustices that occupy my day-to-day existence even outside of the atypicality represented by living during a globe-altering virus outbreak.